# Germany’s ruling CDU suffers severe losses in two state elections

https://mins.news/en/video/67266

- TRT World, 2026-09-21 11:21 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMnT0qb5NDQ

> After another poor election result for Germany’s ruling Christian Democratic Union, Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed to stay in office. Merz called the outcomes in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin a “disaster”, while political analyst Klaus Jurgens offered his assessment.

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